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WATCH: Arbitration Breakfast Briefing: STC v Betamax
The first of our 2021 Arbitration Breakfast Briefings will cover the public policy exception to the enforcement of arbitration awards – the Privy Council in STC v Betamax (to be heard on 20 January 2021). We would like to invite... Read more
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Stuart Isaacs QC features in The Lawyer’s top 10 Bar moves of 2020
We are delighted to announce that in The Lawyer’s feature on the Bar’s most significant hires of 2020, released today, Stuart Isaacs QC is ranked at the number 4 spot. Stuart joined Wilberforce in April 2020, moving across from an... Read more
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Joanna Smith QC appointed High Court judge
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Joanna Smith QC as a Justice of the High Court, with effect from 11th Jan 2021, when she will be known as the Honourable Mrs Justice Joanna Smith. The JAC recommended Joanna... Read more
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Re Tokenhouse VB Ltd [2020] EWHC 3171 (Ch) and the million dollar question
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Six Wilberforce barristers feature in Property Week’s top 10 cases of the year
We are delighted that six members of Wilberforce Chambers appeared in cases on Property Week’s top 10 property cases of the year list. Martin Hutchings KC and James McCreath – Alexander Devine Children’s Cancer Trust v Housing Solutions Ltd (watch... Read more
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Estate Management and Business Development Co Ltd v Namalco Construction Services Ltd & Ors
On 11 January 2021 David Phillips KC appeared before the Court of Appeal in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, in the latest round of the hard-fought Contractors’ Conspiracy claims. David had successfully resisted the Contractors’ strike-out and related applications, Mr Justice... Read more
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Stuart Isaacs KC features as a leading silk in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
We are delighted to announce that Stuart Isaacs QC has been recommended as a leading silk in the English Bar commercial category of The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021 guide. The directory notes that “his strengths are his impressive grasp... Read more
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Time to act: the UK Trust Register and the Fifth Money Laundering Directive
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Time to act: the UK Trust Register and the Fifth Money Laundering Directive
To download and read this piece as a pdf, please click here. Commentary by Michael Ashdown. HMRC’s registration requirements for trusts may not have been the focus of many practitioners’ attention during 2020, but the 31 January deadline for Trusts... Read more
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WATCH: Arbitration Breakfast Briefing: Multi-party arbitrations, the joinder of non-parties to an arbitration agreement and disputes under multiple contracts
In the second of our 2021 series of Arbitration Breakfast Briefings, Stuart Isaacs QC, Stephen Brown and Jia Wei Lee will discuss current issues relating to the conduct of multi-party arbitrations, the joinder of non-parties to an arbitration agreement and disputes under multiple... Read more